The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-09-15
FARM AND rlREslpE.

Dat straw Is best for hlling bods- IL
Is we'll TO change the straw as often as
once a year
"A certain farmer sticks clothes pins
through board. nails up the board and
hangs his whips in the pins. Saves
money and whips.
IL man has agood place for geese
he may profit by raising them. Geese
will injure crops il allowed. but there is
nothing on the farm that can be taught
their place more readily than they
Cirt,ttan at Work.
-Fdrm and Home recommends the
following plan to prevent COW from
sucking herself: Smear her teats with
molasses and red pepper. She will look
better so than with \ halter or neck
frame on. You will be more delighted
with the result than the COW is with the
experiment.
To Serve n Watermelon; Cut the
melon in two; take out the pink part in
smooth spoonfuls, removing the sccds.
and pile up in glass dish; ornament
with flakes of white Of egg, frothed,
and sweotened with little powdered
sugar. Set ON the leo till ready to
serve. IN y 0bscrror
"A pretty cushion may be made in
strips, narrow ut the euds and widenea
toward the middle, put together with u
strip of black and gold-colorcd wool
They are in tho shape of n mnskmelon.
and are divided OF into sections, drawn
up in the middle, and tied with n
worsted cord and asseL-Indianfpotss
| Journal
There are not few houses in which
pen. paper and ink are so rarely used
that when wanted they are scarcely to
be found, and II found, the paper Is
yellow, the Ink pale and the pen rusty.
A place should DO provided for them.
Every member of the family shrald be
encouraged to use them.
"A new plan for protecting half
hardy plants was tried in England last
winter by the Royal Botanic Society,
A layer of water. contained in shall
low glass tank. was placed over the
plants, instead Of the glass alone, and
was found to possess two advantages,
being an effective safeguard against
frost and against the excessive heat o.
the sum- Y. Ledger.
| The manure Of milking COW de,
pendent on pasture alone can not bS
very rich. Tho food is succulent and
stimulating to milk production, and
this removes most OF the heterogeneous
and mineral elements that the COW eats
II the cows are yarled Mt night, thu
moro valuable parts Of their manur,
are left in the farmyard. Boston Globe
1t is not bad rule to keep orchard
lands in as good heart as the corn-tield
To do this some manure is necessary
II large crops of fruit and grass are re
moved, considerable manure IS needed
to keep up the fertility. Tillage serves
partly rs manure in the corniicld, but
old orchards that are seeded down ar,
not thus benefited. -Preiric Farmer.
Dry Bread Fritters: Two cups o
dry, fino bread crumbs, two table
spoonfuls prepared -FOUR half pint OF
rather less of milk, four 'yell-beateI
eggs, half cupiul of sugar. table
spoonful Of butter and few eurrapts
Boil the milk and pour over the bread
dredgc the currants with -four and mi,
all into stiff batter Drop into no
lard as doughnuts and send TO table il
powdered sugar. Indianapolis Sent
mel.
To do up shirts, taks two table
spoonfuls of starch and one teaspoon
even full of powdered borex. and dis
solve in one and one-half cups OF COLI
water The shirts must not he pre-
yiously starched, and they must he per
fectly dry. Dip the cuffa, collars
bosoms aud neckbands in the starch
then roll up tight in a dry Cloth, AM
let them lie two hours. Then rub OF
and iron. They will be liks paste
board and have nice gloss : Chris
tian at Work.